Chapter 413 7.67 The Road Home (1)
When Loki was in a desperate situation, Alfred and Wenzof, who were fleeing outside the city of Paris, also fell into the heavy encirclement of the Golden Scale Guard.
France has been able to stand in the Western Continent for hundreds of years. Although trade is their main weapon, the French army built with real gold and silver is also not weak.
At the city gate, Loki bent the bolt with both hands, temporarily blocking the passage of the Golden Scale Guards in the city. At this time, there were only more than a hundred Golden Scale Guards who could follow Alfred's team.
After the Viking pirates robbed the horses, they fled to the north. The Golden Scale Guards, who were caught off guard, could only plunder the horses of the merchants on the spot. However, as soon as they got on the horse, they immediately discovered the huge gap between themselves and the Viking pirates.
Alfred and his party were all wearing light leather armor, but the Golden Scale Guards were wearing heavy fine iron chain armor. This set of iron armor made of 100 forged fine iron, from the helmet to the chain mail to the weapon, weighed nearly 40 kilograms.
The difference between commercial packhorses and military horses that carry goods and pull carriages is huge. After running for only a few hundred meters, they were already far behind the Viking pirates.
But the Golden Scale Guards were not helpless.
As several gorgeous fireworks burst into the sky, just over ten minutes later, flying Pegasus began to appear near the horizon.
Behind them, there were more than a dozen even larger figures.
That was the giant dragon rising into the sky.
In the center of the giant dragon, there were two East Continent swordsmen flying with swords.
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"Brothers! Charge into the woods!" Alfred shouted loudly, "Get away from the open land as soon as possible! Only by rushing into the woods can we avoid the giant dragon's search!"
"And in the dense forest, we have trees to block us. When the cavalry can't launch a charge, they are not scary!"
Shouting loudly, Alfred kicked the belly of the horse under his crotch. The horses used by the caravan to transport goods were not good-quality war horses after all. Although they felt the nervousness of their masters on their backs, they ran as hard as they could.
But as a group of white clouds approached quickly behind them, the Pegasus Knight, wearing silver armor and holding a halberd, had spread his wings and glided close to the crowd.
Globally, "Pegasus", a creature that has survived from the ancient times, can only reproduce on the land of France, because in this era, only this land still has sufficient spiritual energy as in the ancient times.
The advantage of Pegasus is that it can fly into the air with its wings spread, and can run at high speed with its wings folded.
This is a creature with excellent comprehensive abilities, but just as hexagonal warriors have always been synonymous with mediocrity, the flying speed of Pegasus Knights is not as fast as that of MOA Knights, and the endurance of running on land is not as good as that of tall-legged war horses.
Their "decorative role" is far stronger than their actual combat capabilities.
As soon as they entered the forest, they were ambushed! Alfred realized that the horses could no longer carry them for a long distance sprint, so he immediately chose to abandon the horses and climb into the trees.
When the large group of Pegasus just rushed into the woods, more than a dozen people immediately fell from the top of the tree canopy and pierced the knight's head with the long sword and rapier in their hands.
After falling into a close-range melee, the Pegasus immediately showed its disadvantage in combat ability.
This creature's turning around and advancing and retreating in a small range are all too slow.
To walk forward, ordinary horses can just raise their front hooves and run forward. However, no matter what action the Pegasus takes, it must first stretch its two wings, which are about 3 meters long.
Three or five Pegasus may be able to perform in chaos.
But at this time, nearly fifty Pegasus knights were suddenly ambushed in the dense forest, and the consequences were disastrous.
The randomly stretched white wings covered his eyes, and the Pegasus knight felt like an ant falling into a chicken coop, with hard feathers all around. If they wanted to swing the silver spears in their hands, they would have to worry about accidentally hurting their companions not far in front of them.
On the other side, although there were only a dozen Viking pirates, they didn't need to avoid their companions when they killed people. All they could see was white.
As long as they saw something white, they would use their weapons to greet it.
In just over ten minutes, more than fifty cavalry pursuers had been hacked to death. Before the sword cultivators and the Golden Scale Guards rushed into the woods, they had already ridden the remaining Pegasus and waving their wings and running wildly in the dense forest.
"Brothers, follow me to the direction of Versailles Castle!"
"The French city-state stipulates that dragons cannot enter the city, and as long as we can enter the city, we can get rescue!"
When Francis said this, he was also quite nervous.
It was only a few hours ago that he and the "Fire Bishop" Microa finalized the deal. Since entering the Inquisition, Loki killed people in public, and everything quickly moved towards chaos and disorder.
The old priest was not sure whether the Fire Worship Cult could be as useful as the legend said.
What worried him even more was the powerful sword cultivators galloping behind him.
There were only two sword cultivators following behind, but their speed was much faster than that of the dragon and Pegasus. In just a few breaths, the flying cold sword blades began to appear behind everyone.
Pegasus spread its wings, half running and half gliding, just able to stay out of the range of the flying sword attack.
And Versailles Castle was still a long distance away from them.
"Master Wenzof, we can't keep running like this!" Alfred said to the old butler beside him in a deep voice.
"My foster father once said that turning around and running away on the battlefield, leaving your back to the enemy, is the most dangerous behavior! What's more, we are now facing two sword cultivators from the East Land."
"If we keep running like this, we will definitely die. It is better to turn around and fight them with our backs to the water!!"
The Viking pirates turned their heads and looked at each other.
Alfred quickly gained the recognition of all the Vikings in a very short time, precisely because of the surging fighting spirit that burned in his bones almost all the time.
Everyone drew their weapons, only Wen Zof said nothing.
He held the reins of the Pegasus tightly with one hand. With the other hand, he firmly clamped Ulysses Elan under his shoulder.
No one else present had seen the power of the Tang Dynasty sword cultivators, but on the night of the blood mist in Hanshui Village, he saw with his own eyes how much Loki, Katya, Jerome, and Lawrence paid to kill the powerful sword cultivator.
They are completely different from the Chosen Ones of the Western Continent.
For the Tang Dynasty sword cultivators who "kill people like mowing grass", there is no essential difference between living people and pasture.
"No way!"
"Completing Duke Loki's mission is the first priority! Now the Duke has entered the imperial city alone and his life or death is unknown. If the worst happens, we must at least ensure that someone can return to the Normandy region and successfully pass the message back!"
"Besides, you haven't seen the strength of the East Continent people!"
"Even if all of us go together, we may not be able to survive the attack of those two people."
All the people present are experienced soldiers, only Wen Zof has lived for 40 years and has experienced enough complex political struggles. Now Loki's life or death is uncertain, and the top priority is to ensure that someone can successfully return to the Normandy region and pass the news that the Duke has fallen into the hands of the enemy.
If they all die here, once the group of old lizards of the Illuminati put on Loki's skin, they will replace his rule openly
What greets all Vikings will be a world-destroying disaster!